Hi Sojrner,

Thank you for the insights. 
Indeed a better message will be helpful in the resolution of this kind of 
issues. We will work on improving it.

Cheers,

Claudio Di Cosmo
Software Engineer
Agilo Software GmbH
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> On 30 Dec 2015, at 22:59, sojrner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This was a strange animal indeed. I went through and disabled all plugins to 
> no avail. After digging through logs and much google-fu I found this post 
> that apparently I missed before:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/agilo/eSYrTvPPsS0/CbZFu850VbIJ
> 
> That was my problem; I had played around with making the actual remaining 
> time field on stories try to sum the hours from tasks below it. I had of 
> course forgotten that I had done so until reading the above post. Simply 
> removing that calculated field stopped the typeError from cropping up.
> 
> While I understand (now) how the calculated field was blowing this up, this 
> might be a great candidate for giving a meaningful error at some point in the 
> chain, whether at the time of creation of the faulty field, or at the 
> explosion that says "hey! you have a bad field here!"
> 
> Just a suggestion. Thanks for the help on this.
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 2:23:51 AM UTC-7, Claudio Di Cosmo wrote:
> Hi sojrner,
> 
>> On 24 Nov 2015, at 17:42, sojrner <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>> 
>> I've looked through this group and the agilo ticket list to no avail. 
>> Apologies if I've missed something obvious... When editing most fields in a 
>> user story, if there are any hours on tasks referencing it Agilo throws the 
>> following error:
>> 
>> "TypeError: expected string or buffer"
>> 
>> We have tracked this to be only an issue when tasks still have hours, which 
>> then show as remaining time on the story. We can also change the story from 
>> "story" to "task" types without issue, but changing any other data point 
>> results in that error. (including trying to change it back from "task" to 
>> "story") If we move all hours of child tickets to zero, everything is fine 
>> and editing can continue on the story.
>> 
>> This seems like incorrect behavior, as I've read posts here about similar 
>> issues that seem to confirm that a story should be able to be closed 
>> regardless of task state. (makes sense when you don't use up all hours on a 
>> task, but the story is fulfilled) I'm including the call list and other 
>> system information for completeness. I appreciate all the help.
>> 
> 
> Thank you for using our Agilo for Trac.
> 
> The issue that you are experiencing can be also related to the interaction 
> with other plugins that are installed on your trac instance. One test that 
> you can do is to disable all plugins not related to agilo for trac and check 
> if the error is still showing up.
> Moreover, the trac version 1.0.5 is not supported/tested yet and we are aware 
> of some incompatibility issues for version greater then 1.0.2, so I would 
> recommend, if possible, to downgrade your version to the latest supported one.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Claudio Di Cosmo
> Software Engineer
> Agilo Software GmbH
> Gruenberger Str. 54
> 10245 Berlin, Germany
> 
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